2011's Top Topics

All week, we’re highlighting StateImpact’s most popular content of 2011. Today’s topic: topics!
Here are the year’s most-visited topic pages, which provide background information on specific issues, and archive stories and blog posts we’ve published.

• Fracking: It’s no surprise our explainer on hydraulic fracturing got more clicks than any other topic page this year.
• The Latest on Pennylvania’s Dueling Impact Fees: Governor Corbett and state lawmakers spent all of 2011 debating whether or not to levy a fee on natural gas wells, and what that fee would look like. With the issue still unresolved, an impact fee will likely be a popular topic in 2012, too.

• The Marcellus Shale, Explained: Background information on the geologic formation, itself.
• Dimock, PA: Ground Zero In the Fight Over Fracking. Our look at excessive methane in the wells of a couple dozen Dimock families, and how the contamination has affected the national debate over natural gas drilling.
• The Delaware River Basin Commission – another front where anti-drilling activists have chosen to take a stand. A look at how the state/federal agency works, and what, exactly, it’s new regulations would do, if they’re ever enacted.

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